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On The Critical Faculty:“It is our only guarantee against delusion, deception, superstition, and misapprehension of ourselves and our earthly circumstances.” William Graham Sumner

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Creeping overtake of UK Mosques by fanatics

Worryingly, according to the Times over 600 of the mosques in the UK are now run by a Moslem sect known as the Deobandi. That is around half of them.

The Deobandi sect is an ‘ultra-conservative’ movement. The Taleban in Afghanistan originated from it - So they are not known for being ‘moderate’ then.

The sect, has managed to gain a significant foothold on the Muslim Council of Britain.

Now it seems a chap who goes by the name of Riyadh ul Haq is poised to become it’s leader in the UK. He makes the BNP look like a bunch of particularly wet Polly Toynbee wannabes, by comparison.

He is fanatically against what he sees as ‘western’ values and has openly called upon Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah.

He loathes any Muslims who admit to any commitment to being British, believing that any friendship with a Jew, or a Christian, is “a mockery of Allah’s religion”.

Clearly pretty ‘moderate’ then ;-)

By all reports he is not someone you would want to see in charge of rounding up shopping trolleys, let alone armed with ‘spiritual’ authority, pouring his hatred into the unwary and volatile.

It seems he was programmed educated and trained at an Islamic seminary in the UK. So the Governments talk of wanting ‘home grown’ imams does not look, on reflection, like such a good idea after all, as things are.

Mr ul Haq is part of a whole new generation of UK Imams who share similar views and agendas.

It seems the Deobandis run Seventeen of Britain’s twenty six Islamic seminaries and are quiely churning out four, out of every five, of all UK trained Muslim clerics. In many cases blithely funded by local education authority grants.

Should we be concerned?

Just because they cloak their evil in religion does not make them any less sinister, any less dangerous or any less to be resisted than the black-shirts of the 20th century.

Yes Phil I think we should be concerned! I really do believe that home grown Militant Islam is going to be one of the biggest threats to the British way of life and to peace in this country over the coming decades.

SJR, the spotlight of attention will hopefully at least cramp ul Haq and the Deobandis style - sounds like a pop group ;-) If only they were so innocuous.

Re :”I think we should be concerned! I really do believe that home grown Militant Islam is going to be one of the biggest threats to the British way of life and to peace in this country over the coming decades.”

Ah Cato - he says in a Cleausau-esque voice ;-) I agree. We do not want a repeat of the Roman Catholic/Protestant thing that so bedevilled the country that it is still illegal for a Roman Catholic to sit on the throne.

The UK mainland has been generally free of religious problems and has practiced a certain tolerance for centuries now.

I believe we should be incredibly wary of allowing the situation to drift back towards religious rivalry and intolerance of any religion other than ones own.

As they are it seems the likes of ul Haq will never be able to comfortably coexist with others in British, or indeed western, society. Further they would appear to be actively promoting the spread similar intolerance undermining the foundations of how we can all reasonably co-exist.

This man and his ilk are clearly unwilling and ultimately unable to tolerate others of a different religion. Their influence needs to be reduced to the point that it is no longer capable of inconveniencing anyone other than themselves alone.